National Republican., 1887-10-24

And there are now domestic antipathies that
seem forever to have scattered all parental
memories to the four winds OF heaven. How
far the eagles fly with that sacred ashes The
hour OF sundown makes to that family no
practical suggestion. Thomas Carlyle, in his
biography Sf Fredsrics ne Great a. says s the tue ola
at peace with his enemies II he wanted TO enter
heaven. Then he said to his wife, the queen,
Write to your brother after I am dead that I
"Her majesty had better write him immedi-
ately." NO" said the king, after am dead;
that. win be safer" SO he let the sun Of his
Again: We ought not to allow the sun set be.
fore forgiveness takes place, because we might
not live to see another day. And what II we
should be ushered into the presence Of our
jority Of people depart this life In the night.
Between IL O'Clock y. m ana 3 O'Clock a. m.
Is II ne WHICH
soul, and most of people enter the next world
through the shadows ofthis world. Perhaps God
may have arranged II in that way so as to make
the contrast the more glorious / have seen
sunshiny days in this world that must have
been almost like the radiance Of heaven. But
as most people leave the earth between sun.
darkest, and heaven, always bright, will be
the brighter for that contrast. Out of black
ness into irradiation. Shall we then leap over
hunting ground Of disease and death, carrying
our animosities with us? Who would want TO
confront his =. God, against whom
We have al all done ooI meaner aaHa thing, things
us, carrying old grudges2 How con we expect
His forgiveness for the greater when we are
not willing to forgive others the less3 Napo.
leon was encouraged TO undertake the crossing
Of the Alps because Charemagne had pre-
viously crossed them. And ali this rugged
path of forgiveness bears the bleeding foot
steps Of Him who conquered through suffer
On the night OF our departure from this life
into the next, Our one plea will have to be
oered SE In ana W " H nave who % bSs
said "If you forgive not men their trespasses
neither VIII your Heavenly Father forgive your
ana wishing this one damage. and Wishing
some one else calamity, and we ourselves
needing forgiveness for ten thousand times ten
thousand obliquities of heart and life. When
our last hour. comes we want 1t to flnd us all
right. Hardly anything affects me SO much In
the uncovering OF ancient Pompeii as the &C.
count OF the soldier who, after the city had for
many centuries been covered with the ashes
and scoriie OF Vesuyius. was found standing
In his place on guard, hand on spear and he'll
met on head, Others fed at the awful SUBJ
alter, found the body OF that brave fellow in
right position. And II will be grand thing II,
when our last moment comes, we are found in
right position toward God, on guard and un.
afifighted by the ashes from the mountain of
death. / do not suppose that I am any more
of coward than most people. but declare to
you that would not dare TO sleep tonight II
there were any being in all the earth with
whom would not gladly shake hands, lest,
during the night hours, my spirit dismissed to
other realms. / should, because of my unfor-
giving spirit. be denied divine forgiveness.
"BHt," says some woman. "there is horrid
creature that has so injured me that rather
than make up with her would die first.
one or the. other It will be-your complete
pardon Of her or Gods eternal punishment OF
you. But" says some man, that fellow who
SnsG,sd me Sn Of those goods damaged
the newspapers. or. by his perfidy broke
up my domestic happiness, forgive him
Won SSaRnSt Sno,sor iorsiSe him a,oIoo will not"
never be at peace with God till yout are at
peace with man. Feeling as you now do, you
would not get SO near the harbor of heaven as
with the God who said; Vengeance Is mine.
l will repay."Y may say: ~ will make him
sweat for that yet, win make him squlrm, I
mean to pursue him to the death" butyou are
soul an impossibiiity. II he Will not be recon.
eiled to You. be recor cied to him.; In five or
will bloom against the western sky. Some.
where between this and that take a shovel
and bury the old quarrel at least six feet
wrath"
"But," you say, 81 have more than car
bear; too much is put upon me, ana am not
TO blame II am somewhat revengeiul and un
relenting." Thcn think of the little child al
father was putting some rolls Of goods on the
ebild,s arm; package after package, and some
one said: That child is being overloaded and
the child responded: "Father knows no "
much can carry" and God, our Father, will
Lot allow TOO much imposition on his children.
In in 1n nf nj nrrtf tpi hQ 1xrnIt had
not one annoyance too many, not one exaSpe-
ration too many, not one outrage too many.
Your heavenly Father knows how much you
can carry.
Again We ought not to allow the passage o
the sunset hour before the dismissal of all onI
afifoDts, because we may associate the sub
limest action Of the soul with the sublimes
spectacle In nature. It is most delightsome
with certain objects. There Is q tree or river
bank where God first answered your prayer
You will never pats that place or think of that
place without thinking of the glorious COM
munion. There was some gate, or some room,
or some garden walk where you were aflanced
with the companion who has been your chief
joy in life. You never speak of that place but
with smile. Some of You have pleasant
memories connected with the evening star, ,oi
the moon in IT'S first quarter or with the sun
were arriving at harbor after a tempestuou'
voyage. Forever and forever, o hearer. asso
ciate the sunset with your magnanimous, out
nd'out, unlimited renunciation OF all hatred'
and forgiveness of all foes. I admit it is the
Ss practice Gfa and at the start m you graSe' may make
I complete failure, but keep on in the at
Temp Ten plays seore sce he reached Ra%e nnd
seventeen plays before he reached Merchant O
Venice, and twenty eight plays before hs
reached s6o Macbeth And adSSay you VII
cult Beside that, 1t is not matter OF persona
determination so much as the laying hold o.
the almighty arm Of God, who with help US to
In all personal controversies tho one least tc
slam9 pose.,an Viii h%ye iS take the first steI
and Aristlppus refounds through history, bu
Aristippus who was least to blame, went L
!Eschines and said "shallwe not agree to bt
friends @ before we make ourselves the laughing
said Thou art a far better man than !, for
began the quarrel, but thou hast heen the frs
In healing the breach" and they were Away
is least to blame take the first step toward con
| ciliation. The one most In the wrong will
never take 1t. oh, 1t makes one feel splendidl,
ioreiyeness. 1t improves ones body aud soul
| II will make you measure three or four NOR,
inches around the chest and improve youl
respiration SO that you can take deeper and
| longer breath. 1t Improves the countenance
by scattering the gloom, and Frightening th
forehead, and loosening the pinched looh
about the nostril and lip. aud makes you some
, what Ike God himself He is omniptence
and we cannot copy that He Is Independent
| Of all the universe, ana we cannot copy that
He Is creative, and we cannot copy that. He
Is omnlpresent, and we cannot copy that. Bu
| he iorgives with a broad sweep all faults
and all neglects, and all insults, ant
all wrong doing, and in that we may copy
sublime action of your soul TO au autumna
sunset the hour when the cate of heaven OPEN
| to let the day pass into the eternities, aud
some som Of the gloIieS escape this way through
sunset, and sunset amid the Apprentices, and
sunset amid the Corderlllas But l Will tel
| you how you may see a graDder sunset thar
any mere lover of nature ever beheld; that 1!
by flinging into II all your hatreds and ami
mosities, and let the horses of fire trampl,
| them and tho charlots Of fire rol
| over them and the spearmen of fir,
| stab them. and the beach of FIRE consume them